"Bricking someone's hardware" is a wild way to say "Vanguard enabled a standard Windows security feature that blocks unauthorized memory access."
If a player takes the shady DMA cheat card out of their motherboard, the PC boots perfectly fine. Riot didn't fry their circuits; they just put a lock on a door.
And please stop using "false positives" as a shield for people who bought literal hardware exploits. A standard gaming PC doesn't accidentally grow a Direct Memory Access card running custom spoofed firmware. If your PC got flagged by this update, you didn't accidentally download a bad patch; you spent $300 to cheat at a video game and got caught. Nice try though.
There's been a lot of tech illiteracy on this today. But if you are compromising your own hardware to cheat in a video game, quite frankly, I couldn't care if they made your PC remotely detonate.
what's with the weird correlation with Vtubers and artists being so pro cheater?
> be Riot
> 2014 anti-cheat team is 3 guys
> legacy system Packman barely works
> 2020 ship Vanguard, kernel-level, on boot
> internet calls it a Chinese rootkit
> ship it anyway
> ban 3.6M Valorant cheaters in 4 years
> one ban every 37 seconds
> 2024 force it onto League, 175K bans in months
> scripting drops below 1% for the first time in 4 years
> Elysium, Oasys, Zeitgeist all shut down
> May 22 2026 flip IOMMU on DMA rigs, they blue-screen mid-match
> tweet "congrats on your $6k paperweight"
a Tencent rootkit just bricked a $6,000 wallhack rig and the only people mad are the guys who bought one
Takes the man out and it isnt even clear or obvious that he touches the ball.
The fact VAR take 10 minutes on some decisions but 2 seconds on others means it’s a failure and they are caught up in a web of inconsistencies
He is healing football.
The most important player in the world by far.
He’s influencing millions of young players and coaches across the world and that’s what’s needed to get away from the rigid boring football we’ve been forced to endure for years.
I adore him
Up there with the worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen, to be honest. Even the challenge before this collision was a foul and the ref let it go.
@GeooStormm@MrAdamAp Damn, tbh sitting watching both games isn’t too bad but atmosphere isn’t as good. We got in to the main venue for th first game, left to walk around a bit and they didn’t let us in which was annoying but understandable now
Cheltenham Day 3
13:20 Kingston Queen 16/1 EW
14:00 Slade Steel 8/1 1pt EW
14:40 Jade De Grugy 5/2
15:20 Bob Olinger 13/2 1pt EW
16:00 Jonbon 11/2 0.5pt Win
16:40 Gowel Road 33/1 EW
17:20 Il Ridoto 28/1 EW
Cheltenham Day 3
13:20 Kingston Queen 16/1 EW
14:00 Slade Steel 8/1 1pt EW
14:40 Jade De Grugy 5/2
15:20 Bob Olinger 13/2 1pt EW
16:00 Jonbon 11/2 0.5pt Win
16:40 Gowel Road 33/1 EW
17:20 Il Ridoto 28/1 EW